Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-10-29


p'fson and ny fate as a glft TO The Lord
" eubn-the king that Is to be. May pros-
plrity. pence and plenty deck the life path of
! )he 80 niercifui and 30 tender even as flowers
~ Long mayest thou reign, . great and
Wns queen, aud hold thy husbands love
zN thy hands, and many be the sons and
Z OF thy beauty And thank thee.
~ lncubn-the king that is 10 bel
IEee thousand times In that thou hast
Hleased TO accept that gracious gift, and
ffnas 1t on 20 thy comrado IN arms and IN
adventure, the Lord Bougwan Surely the
act Is sorthy Of thy greatness, my Lord
incnhu And now lastly l thank thee also
my Lod Bougwan. who in thy turn hast
delgned TO accept me and my poor beauty,
thDk thee thousand times and will add
thqt thou art good and honest man, and
pYt my hand upon my heart and swear that
IiAwould that | could say thee yea. And
nov that have rendered thanks to all In
tufn"-and again she smiled--"I viii add one
fshort word
vLittle can We understand Of me. Nyleptha
"a Y my lords, II ye know not that for m
there Is no middle path THAT scorn ourpitv
and hate ye for 10 that cast off your for
give9ss as though it were a serpent's sting
ana That standing here, betrayed, deserted
insulted and alone / yet triumph over We.
mock ye aud defy We, one and all, and thus |
answer ye,o and then of a sudden, before
anybody guessed what she intended to do, she
drove the little silver spear she carried in her
hand into her side with such strong and
steady aim that the keen point PROJECTED
her back, and shefell prone upon the
{pa tfnent.
Nylepthe shrieked, and poor Good almost
tainted at the sight, while the rest of us
rushed toward her. But Sorais of the Night
lifted herself upon her hand and for moment
fixed Der glorious eyes intently on Curtis
faeA as though there were some message in
theSlance, then dropped her head and sighed,
and with sob her dark yet splendid spirit
passed.
Well, they gave her a royal funeral, an,
there was an end of her
1t WINS a month after the last act of the So
yissragedy that there was great ceremony
ID the Flower Temple, and Curtis was for
mally declarecAng consort Of Zu- vendls !
was too Ill to go myself, and, indeed, I-ba.e
all that sort OF thing with the crowds and
{he trumpet blowing and banner waving, but
Aoos who was there lin his full dress uni
Mimi, came back much impressed, and told
ME that Nyleptha had looked lovely. and Cur
lis had borne himself in right royal fashion,
and had been received with acclamations that
left no doubt as to his popularity Also be
told me that when the horse Daylight was led
along in the procession, the populace had
shouted Macumazahn, Macumazahn y till
they were hoaise. and would only be appeased
when he, Good, rose in his chariot and tolC
them that was too i'll to be present.
Afterwards, too, Sir Henry, or rather The
King, came TO see me- looking very tired and
vossng that he had never been so bored in
his life, but dare say that that was slight
exaggeration. 1t is not In human nature that
q man should be altogether bored on such an
lextraordinary OCCASION and, indeed, as
. pointed out 10 him, 1t was a marvellous thing
NaAa man who but little more than one short
)Aar before had entered great country as an
unknown wanderer should today be married
to its beautiful and beloved queen, and lif ed
amid public rejoicings to its throne, and
even went the length to exhort him In the fu.
ture ndt to be carried away by the pride and
pomp of absolute power, but always TO strive
to remember that he was first a Christian
gentlsmnn and next a public servant, called
by Providence to great and almost unpre-
cedented trust These remarks, which he
might failiy have resented, lie was SO good as
to receiweAit h patience, and even to thank
me for making them.
1t was Immediately after this ceremony
that I eaused myself to be moved to the house
where am now writing. II is very peas.
ant country seat, situated about two miles
from the browning City, onto which
n looks That was FIVE months ago
during the whole of which time
have, being confined to kind of cough
empoyed my leisure in compiling this history
of oar wanderings from my journal and oui
joint memories 1t is probable that it viii
never be read, but it does not much matter
sxf Their it is or rot, at any rate, it has served
toNvhile away many hours of suffering, for
have suffered deal of pain lately, Thanh
God, however, there win not be much NOR,
Oft.
i Il is a week since I wrote the above, ant
nov take up my pen for the last time, for
know that the end is at hand. My brain /
Still clear and can manage to write, though
with difficulty The pain in my lung, which
has been very bad during the last week, ha
suddenly quite left me and been succeeded
by feeling of numbness of which | canno
mistake the meaning.
And so this is the end of tia brief spac
of troubling, a few restless, fevered, anguish
ed years, and then the arms of that grea
anl6l death, Many times have been nea
to them, many and many a comrade hav
they embraced even at my side, and now
is my turn at last, and it is we'll Twenty
four hours more and the world will be gon
from me, and with it all its hopes and all it
fears.
Well 1t Is not good world-nobody ca
say that it is save those who willfully bin
themselves to facts How can a world i
good In which money is the moving powe
and self interest the guiding starr The wor
der is not that it is SO bad, but that ther
should be any good left in it.
Still, now that my life is over, | am gla
to have lived, glad to have known the dea
breath of womans love, and that true frienC
ship that can even surpass the love OF woman
glad Is have heard the laughter of lit
childrtn, to have seen the sun and the moo
and the stars, to have felt the kiss of the sa
sea on my face, and watch the wild gan
trek down to the water in the moOnligh